If you are a potential award winner we just want to make sure you know that should you win we'll give you a minute or two to say a few words. We expect the show will last around 90 minutes, but we make no guarantees! Following the show we'll open the mics and webcams and have a "virtual" post-show / year-end party. We hope you'll join us for what you can.

If you are new to Elluminate — please make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate before the event by visiting Elluminate Support. We'll open up the Elluminate room 30 minutes before we start, and we encourage you to come in a few minutes early to set your microphone up and make sure you're connected. We’ll hold a special introduction to Elluminate 15 minutes before the awards ceremony is scheduled to begin for those that have never used it before.

I want to express my personal appreciation to all who are involved in education and contribute through blogging, social networking, social media, and other educational technologies. The Edublog Awards voting system is admittedly an imperfect methodology for recognizing all of those contributions, but hopefully it is a way of celebrating some of the contributions that we accomplish together. If you feel someone was overlooked or under-recognized, we'll have a chance for you to shout out "well done" to them during the show! And from me, Thank You!

Current

FutureofEducation.com Interviews

"Steve is an amazing facilitator. He brings this wonderful combination of humility, hospitality and insight to conversations that matter in education."

-Bernard Bull

"The depth of your observations from last night is still resonating with me. I'm trying to think of another interview I've given where the questioner understood the material so well that he/she so regularly (and fluidly) went into new intellectual territory. I can't think of any. Pretty amazing. Thank you."

-David Shenk

"Steve is one of the most influential yet understated individuals in the world of Education. He gives thought leaders a widely attended global platform to voice their ideas to transform Education, and he does so with tremendous respect and intelligence."

-Charles Fadel

"Steve conducted the most in-depth interview I've ever been through and I enjoyed it to boot!"-Doc Searls

"Steve is the Oprah of education."

-Monika Hardy's Students

"Steve is the 'white knight' of education reform."-Michelle Cordy

"The nicest guy in ed tech."

-Rushton Hurley

"Steve is a national treasure."

-Leonard Waks

"Steve Hargadon is one of the most important change-makers of our time!"

-Connie Weber

"Steve is a connector. He is a bridge. He is a lifeline. He takes the lead. He gets things done. Quite simply, Steve Hargadon is a humble, kind, unsung hero who makes a difference in the lives of educators worldwide."

-Joyce Valenza

"Steve is a forge! The heat of the conversations he instigates and the amazing thinkers he interview for The Future of Education, soften the metal of some of my most valued visions and reshape them into ideas that are better … that excite me … that make it hard for me to sleep. If we succeed in hacking education into something that is, once again, relevant, we will owe more to Steve Hargadon than we will ever know."

-David Warlick

"He is a man of incredible character and wisdom, and again, I am lucky to know him and work well with him."-Lucy Gray